Celebrating National School Counseling Week, February 5-9

National School Counseling Week highlights the important work school counselors do on behalf of our students. To celebrate, we share some facts about the school counselors who work in SPPS.

Our district has 117 school counselors who serve students in grades K-12.

In the first quarter of the 2017-18 school year, school counselors in SPPS conducted nearly 38,000 individual and group counseling sessions.

School counselors have master’s degrees and are trained and educated in counseling strategies. School counselors focus on all students’ academic and social emotional growth. They counsel, teach, and advocate.

The work of school counselors falls into three main categories: academic advising, career and college readiness, and social emotional support.